Confidence in Prayer

Many persons, that are being told that God answers prayer for Christ’s sake, overlook the condition of obedience. They have so loose an idea of prayer, and of our relations to God in it, and of his relations to us and to his moral government, that they think they may be disobedient and yet prevail through Christ. How little do they understand the whole subject! Surely they must have quite neglected to study their Bible to learn the truth about prayer. They might very easily have found it there declared, “He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be an abomination.” “The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord.” “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.”

All this surely teaches us that if there be the least sin in my heart, the Lord will not hear my prayer. Nothing short of entire obedience for the time being is the condition of acceptance with God. There must be a sincere and honest heart–else how can you look up with humble confidence and say, My Father; else how can you use the name of Jesus, as your prevailing Mediator; and else, how can God smile upon you before all the eyes of angels and of pure saints above!”

Charles Finney

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After many years of apostasy and compromise, God is again restoring His church in this end-time. This is a divine move of the Holy Ghost, as ordained by God and prophesied of in Revelation and other scriptures. God is again calling all of His true children out of every sect and schism back to the one fold, the precious church of God. The glory of God is in our midst, unity prevails, and young and old are finding help for their souls. The Bride is now making herself ready for the soon return of her Lord and Saviour.